English - Foundation Year
Language for social interactions Explore how language is used differently at home and school depending on the relationships between people (ACELA1428) Purpose audience and structures of different types of texts Understand that texts can take many forms, …
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English - Year 1
Language for social interactions Understand that language is used in combination with other means of communication, for example facial expressions and gestures to interact with others (ACELA1444) Understand that there are different ways of asking for …
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English - Year 2
Language for social interactions Understand that language varies when people take on different roles in social and classroom interactions and how the use of key interpersonal language resources varies depending on context (ACELA1461) Purpose audience …
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English - Year 3
Language for social interactions Understand that successful cooperation with others depends on shared use of social conventions, including turntaking patterns, and forms of address that vary according to the degree of formality in social situations (ACELA1476) Purpose …
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English - Year 4
Language for social interactions Understand that social interactions influence the way people engage with ideas and respond to others for example when exploring and clarifying the ideas of others, summarising their own views and reporting them to a larger …
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English - Year 5
Language for social interactions Understand that patterns of language interaction vary across social contexts and types of texts and that they help to signal social roles and relationships (ACELA1501) Purpose audience and structures of different types …
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English - Year 6
Language for social interactions Understand that strategies for interaction become more complex and demanding as levels of formality and social distance increase (ACELA1516)
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English - Year 7
Purpose audience and structures of different types of texts Understand and explain how the text structures and language features of texts become more complex in informative and persuasive texts and identify underlying structures such as taxonomies, cause …
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English - Year 8
Purpose audience and structures of different types of texts Analyse how the text structures and language features of persuasive texts, including media texts, vary according to the medium and mode of communication (ACELA1543)
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English - Year 9
Purpose audience and structures of different types of texts Understand that authors innovate with text structures and language for specific purposes and effects (ACELA1553)
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English - Year 10
Purpose audience and structures of different types of texts Compare the purposes, text structures and language features of traditional and contemporary texts in different media (ACELA1566)
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English - Foundation Year
Visual language Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts (ACELA1786) Comprehension strategies Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently …
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English - Year 1
Comprehension strategies Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features …
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English - Year 2
Comprehension strategies Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures (ACELY1670)
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English - Year 3
Visual language Identify the effect on audiences of techniques, for example shot size, vertical camera angle and layout in picture books, advertisements and film segments (ACELA1483) Comprehension strategies Use comprehension strategies to build literal …
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English - Year 4
Visual language Explore the effect of choices when framing an image, placement of elements in the image, and salience on composition of still and moving images in a range of types of texts (ACELA1496) Comprehension strategies Use comprehension strategies …
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English - Year 5
Comprehension strategies Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources (ACELY1703)
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English - Year 6
Visual language Identify and explain how analytical images like figures, tables, diagrams, maps and graphs contribute to our understanding of verbal information in factual and persuasive texts (ACELA1524) Comprehension strategies Use comprehension …
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English - Year 7
Visual language Analyse how point of view is generated in visual texts by means of choices, for example gaze, angle and social distance (ACELA1764) Comprehension strategies Use comprehension strategies to interpret, analyse and synthesise ideas and …
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English - Year 8
Visual language Investigate how visual and multimodal texts allude to or draw on other texts or images to enhance and layer meaning (ACELA1548) Comprehension strategies Use comprehension strategies to interpret and evaluate texts by reflecting on …
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